Thermo Fisher Scientific has been providing instruments, reagents, and solutions for plant science research for over two decades.

Fragment Analysis Solutions for Agriculture Biotechnology

We have developed CE solutions for high-throughput genotyping, genomic profiling, chimerism, and copy number analysis to enable sequence-to-function analysis for today’s plant biotechnology researchers.

Sequencing Solutions for Plant Sciences

AFLP®

Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP®) is a technique originally developed for plant-breeding applications, but is now employed universally as a method for fingerprinting DNA from any source. Read the AFLP® application note on plant mapping.

Inventoried TaqMan® MicroRNA Assays are available for several species, including Arabidopsis. These assays are aligned with the Sanger miRBase Registry. If you can’t find the assay you need from our stocked list, you can design your own Assay.

Genotyping

TaqMan® genotyping assays are optimized for end-point fluorescence detection and are useful in a variety of applications in agriculture and plant biotechnology, including linkage mapping and population genetics. For higher throughput, the TaqMan® SNP genotyping assays (stocked or custom) can be supplied as an Open Array® Genotyping plate, which enables one person to validate or screen up to 256 SNPs across >1,500 samples in one day, without the use of robotics.

Algae Engineering Kits

New GeneArt® Algae Engineering Kits for Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Synechococcus elongatus are the first commercially available genetic modification and expression systems for photosynthetic microalgae. These kits are designed for rapid scale-up and production and consistent, defined quality.